There was much ado about President Barack Obama’s commencement speech at the Catholic-aligned Notre Dame. Staunch Catholic opposition expressed outrage at the President’s pro-choice stance on abortion, and to that end several were arrested on site for their protest.

Interesting in that former President George W., who was pro-death penalty and pro-war, was welcomed during his visit in 2001 (although admittedly to some discord). Yet somehow something seems awry when a leader like Obama—who has spent his tenure, thus far, seeking out new ways of uniting all persons in agreement to discuss, find a common understanding and change, would be so taunted.

“We must find a way to reconcile our ever-shrinking world with its ever-growing diversity—diversity of thought, diversity of culture, and diversity of belief,” Obama preached during his much media-hyped commencement address. The President literally pled, in his ever ingenious oratorical rhetoric, for understanding, something a preceding great leader lived, and died, for:

“Unfortunately, finding that common ground — recognizing that our fates are tied up, as Dr. King said, in a ’single garment of destiny’ — is not easy,” Obama noted.

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